FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Nov 13, 2013 (UPI)

Uruguay will bar foreign companies and individuals from buying land in the country under new legislation before the country's Legislature. Opinion in Montevideo...

NGO asks EU to not buy Paraguay beef over indigenous concerns

Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)

An NGO asked the European Union Tuesday to not buy Paraguay beef in retaliation for cattle ranching in an indigenous area there. Tribal-rights group Survival ca...

Egypt farmers fear water supply threat from Ethiopia dam

Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)

With an economy already in tatters, Egypt's farmers fear the building of an upstream Nile dam in Ethiopia could lead to water shortages and crop failures with c...

Whitefly aims to prevent contamination of agriculture

Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)

On November 8th, JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, introduced a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food...

Researchers uncover origins of cattle farming in China

Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)

An international team of researchers, co-led by scientists at the University of York and Yunnan Normal University, has produced the first multi-disciplinary evi...

Volunteers join scientists in finding out who gets rid of cow dung

Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)

With more than a billion cows around the world, an immense amount of dung is produced each day. Most of these droppings will evidently disappear, as the world i...

Spanish winemakers eye China's wine frontier

Nov 10, 2013 (AFP)

Wines from Spain and the New World are gaining ground in China at the expense of their French counterparts, as increasingly adventurous Chinese wine enthusiasts...

Health benefits of wild blueberries abound: Study

Nov 08, 2013 (SPX)

Wild blueberries are a rich source of phytochemicals called polyphenols, which have been reported by a growing number of studies to exert a wide array of protec...

Improved legume technologies can boost entire farming system from the ground up

Nov 08, 2013 (SPX)

A pan-African project aimed at improving legume technologies to counter the debilitating impact of low-nitrogen soils on agricultural production is generating h...

Brazil banks on record soybean harvest in 2013-2014

Nov 08, 2013 (AFP)

Brazil, the world's second-largest soybean producer, is expecting a record harvest this year as well as in 2014, according to monthly official estimates release...

Researchers slam palm oil initiative as industry meets

Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)

Forests are still disappearing and local communities disregarded by palm oil development despite a plan to put the sector on a sustainable footing, researchers ...

We'll rise or fall on the quality of our soil

Nov 06, 2013 (SPX)

Great civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent the degradation of the soils on which they were founded. The modern world could suffer the same f...

EU faces decision on GM crop cultivation: Commission

Nov 06, 2013 (AFP)

European governments must now decide once and for all if they are to block or permit the cultivation of genetically modified crops on the continent, the Europea...

Warsaw climate meet must measure rich lands' emissions

Nov 06, 2013 (AFP)

Brazil said Wednesday that next week's Warsaw climate change meeting should set itself the task of measuring the damage done by rich countries' greenhouse gas e...

China exchange hatches plan for egg futures

Nov 06, 2013 (AFP)

Recognising that investors should not put all their eggs in one basket, a Chinese commodities exchange is offering a novel futures contract to hedge against ris...

First GMO rice to be launched in Philippines in 2016: researchers

Nov 05, 2013 (AFP)

The first genetically-modified rice to be commercially available could be approved for production in the Philippines in two to three years, researchers said Tue...

Plant production could decline as climate change affects soil nutrients

Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)

As drylands of the world become even drier, water will not be the only resource in short supply. Levels of nutrients in the soil will likely be affected, and th...

Study challenges soil testing for potassium and the fertilizer value of potassium chloride

Nov 04, 2013 (SPX)

In the chemical age of agriculture that began in the 1960s, potassium chloride (KCl), the common salt often referred to as potash, is widely used as a major fer...

Second GM corn set for EU approval after Court ruling: EU sources

Oct 31, 2013 (AFP)

A second genetically-modified corn crop looks set for authorisation in the European Union unless there is a sudden change in the positions of divided government...

Drink it while you can, as wine shortage looms: study

Oct 31, 2013 (AFP)

Attention wine lovers: savor every last sip, as researchers say there may be a global shortage looming. Wine prices could shoot up because of a fall in producti...